Re: VMs: introducing myself and 2 questions :)

[Ken W <pyro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

 

Short time listener, long time VMS fan, first time sender...

 

After some time delving into this whole barrel of "chocthy", I  dug around with the help of GC and flamingjesus, et al and put together a PDF of the complete VMS using the best images I could find.  Two weeks of Photoshop and Adobe work later, I have a version which reproduces the form of the VMS - foldouts and all.  For research purposes, I felt it was more important to retain as much of the image information as possible so the entire file is about 300Megs (many details became rather worthless with more compression).  If anyone is interested I can send a CD to the first few people interested if they can do the same if I'm in over my head.  If everyone has already plunked so much of their time into doing the same or otherwise, I won't bother -- or if this is a flagrent copyright issue. 

 

Ciao,

Ken

>oh sh.... those who need to click at all these links will end with a carpal
>tunnel syndrome at the end *g*
>i downloaded the jpegs an did a short compressing test with photoshop:
>its possible to make them about ~30% smaller without any notable loss in
>quality. i would do the compressing and zip them in one file, but:
>is it legal to offer them for downloading?

Commendably, GC has already done this (in a 23MB PDF) on his
http://www.baconbooks.net/ - you can find it on
http://www.baconbooks.net/Voynich/voynich.htm to be precise. Thank heavens
for broadband, eh? :-)

Personally, I prefer having individual files to the PDF (perhaps because
I'm used to using PhotoShop and Debabelizer Pro, etc) - but feel free to
use whatever works best for you. :-)